ISic003530: I.Sicily inscription 003530

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ID: ISic003530
Status: draft
Language: Ancient Greek
Object type: plaque
Text type: funerary

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Apparatus criticus

Text after Bitto and Griffo

Physical description

Support

Description: Marble plaque, broken into fragments, of which five survive, which join. The upper and lower left corners are lost, but a small part of the left margin is preserved. A small part of the right margin and the lower right corner also lost.
Object type: plaque
Object condition: fragments, contiguous
Dimensions: height: 17.7 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: cm

Material

Description: marble
Type > subtype: stone.unspecified > unverified

Inscription

Layout: Text is centred, with a straight left margin and an irregular right margin.
Text condition: incomplete
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: V-cut lunate Greek letters, slightly irregular: lunate sigma and epsilon, cursive omega, regular mu with short middle strokes.
Letter heights: Line 1-5: 15mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: 20mm; Interlineation line 2 to 5: 15mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Messana
Provenance found: Necropolis at the Orti della Maddalena

Current location

Place: Messina, Sicilia
Repository: Museo regionale interdisciplinare di Messina; A4950
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

1st — 3rd century CE (CE 1 - CE 300)

Evidence: No data

Text type

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at (1942), 84 no. 5 fig. 23
IMusMessina Bitto (2001) at 21

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

2/15/2026